Presidents have used autopens for decades. Now Trump objects to Biden's use of one
DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
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President Donald Trump throws pens used to sign executive orders to the crowd during an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event Jan. 20 in Washington.
Matt Rourke, Associated Press
President Joe Biden,signs a presidential memorandum that will establish the first-ever White House Initiative on Women's Health Research on Nov. 13, 2023 in the Oval Office in Washington.
Andrew Harnik, Associated Press
Damilic Corp. president Bob Olding anchors a sheet of paper as the Atlantic Plus, the Signascript tabletop model autopen, produces a signature in 2011 at their office in Rockville, Md., office.
President Donald Trump claimed Monday that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot have no force because, Trump says, the-then president signed them with an autopen instead of by his own hand.
President Donald Trump throws pens used to sign executive orders to the crowd during an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event Jan. 20 in Washington.
President Joe Biden,signs a presidential memorandum that will establish the first-ever White House Initiative on Women's Health Research on Nov. 13, 2023 in the Oval Office in Washington.
Damilic Corp. president Bob Olding anchors a sheet of paper as the Atlantic Plus, the Signascript tabletop model autopen, produces a signature in 2011 at their office in Rockville, Md., office.
